A few little changes & a Linkup

A FEW LITTLE CHANGES

In case y’all haven’t noticed, there are a few little changes happening here on the blog!  If you’re on mobile, you won’t see it at it’s full potential because my new layout looks so much better on desktop.  I’m not sure if y’all will remember, but I had issues with my previous layout, something happened to the code where it became corrupt.

Unfortunately, since I know the bare minimum when it comes to coding, I couldn’t find the issue, so instead of having an error pop up every single time my blog loaded, I decided to use one of the default templates on WordPress.  Whenever I did that (which I didn’t realize was very long ago), my Google Analytics disconnected and it hasn’t been tracking anything for much longer than I would like to admit.  If you’re a blogger, or really anyone with a website, you know how important it is to be able to track these types of things.  Which brings me to why I decided to update my current layout.

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MY NEW LAYOUT

Since I’m not very tech savvy, I did buy a theme on Etsy.  This theme is called Classy Ink.  While I may not be all that great when it comes to technology, I am great at following directions.  The best part about purchasing from this Etsy seller, is they have a full blown tutorial that comes with the theme.  It’s not just a quick download, or a copy and paste code.  You do have to install lots of plugins, but it was actually pretty interesting and I learned a few things installing this new theme.

They do have the option of paying for them to install it for you if you get overwhelmed with it.  It can be overwhelming, and I do recommend taking a few hours to yourself to focus on it.  I installed it while I was at our auto shop, and I had to keep going back and making sure that I did the step I was supposed to do.  It got done, but it took me all day due to how busy it was at the shop.  The last theme that I had it only came with instructions on how to download it but when it came to installing certain plugins, there were no instructions so my layout definitely didn’t look the same.  I contacted the seller and they weren’t very helpful so I just said whatever, because I didn’t pay that much for it.

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FEELING MORE INSPIRED LATELY

I have been feeling more inspired lately, and I’m not sure why.  I’m just a few weeks away from starting the third trimester, so I can’t promise I’ll be inspired all the way through October, but I’ll try.  Over the past two weeks or so, I’ve been tired, but not as painfully tired as I was in the first trimester and most of the second.  I know that will change once the third trimester gets here.  I’m already feeling the swelling of the feet, the having trouble tying my shoes, and more aches and pains.  However, I do think that buying more maternity clothes was helpful.  I haven’t splurged on myself this much in a while because I felt like I didn’t need to and I had enough clothes.

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SPEAKING OF SPLURGING ON CLOTHES

I recently went ahead and made another purchase on maternity clothes.  I’ve almost worn all of my Boohoo clothes that I bought, but I wanted to get a few more pieces.  After this big purchase, I noticed that I feel way more comfortable in tighter fitting maternity clothes.  Last week’s post (click here) was probably my favorite maternity outfit thus far.  It hugged me in all the right places and even though I felt huge (I know I’m not, it’s just how I feel), I felt so confident and beautiful in that.  I decided that instead of trying to hide the bump, I want to accentuate it even more.  For example, in today’s outfit, I don’t feel as confident and in a way I’m trying to hide the bump here.

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THE AFTERMATH OF LAST WEEK’S POST

If you read my post for last week’s linkup post (click here), I was honestly very scared at what would happen afterwards.  In case you didn’t read it, in that post I spoke about how I was getting very overwhelmed by the constant negativity surrounding my pregnancy and what to expect.  The original post I wrote was very ranty and it was just to get my thoughts out because I was feeling shitty if I’m being blunt.

This was especially after I had some trouble breathing over the past few weeks.  My asthma has been acting up with this pregnancy and I’m going to bring it up with my doctor when I see her next week.  However, it was so nice to be able to get all of that out.  Well, I think some people might have seen it because ever since, it’s been crickets in the negativity department.  I’m going to assume that maybe some of them read my post, or maybe they got the hint when I just started either changing the subject or not responding.

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I MISSED BLOGGING

Going back to it being nice to let everything out in my last blog post.  I’ve realized over the last few weeks that I’ve missed blogging so much.  Being able to write out my thoughts has been therapeutic throughout my entire time running this blog.  Over the last few years, it got harder to blog because of how hectic life had gotten, then after the move it just got worse, and once my Youtube took off, that was really the end of it.  Once I started making more money off of Youtube, this blog took the back burner even more.  I tried to keep up with it as much as possible.  Now I see that I don’t have the same traffic as before, and I don’t see the same people commenting (along with me not responding for a very long time due to not having the time).  I loved the community that I built here, even though most of you have left, and that’s 100% understandable, I’m not saying this to throw myself a pity party.

The reason why I’m saying all of this is because some people on Youtube are some of the most toxic people.  I’m not talking about content creators (the creators I talk and watch are far from toxic), but random strangers who comment from anonymous accounts.  It goes so much deeper than just trolls.  Which is something I wrote about here over a year ago (click here).  Some of the comments I get that I do not allow on my channel are just horrible.  Most of the trolling comments I get, I either laugh at or share in a video to discuss it if it’s a good one, but some of them are just alarming.  I’ll never understand leaving something other than constructive criticism in a comments section.  When I don’t like something, or if I don’t agree with something, I move on and keep scrolling.  I would also never think to attack someone for how they look, or what they sound like.  Those are the mild comments, there are some that I won’t repeat here.  It could be because my blog never really took off so I always had a smaller little space here on the internet.  My channel isn’t large by any means, but it has a larger audience than my blog does so maybe that’s why.

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IN CONCLUSION

At the end of the day, I’m hoping to be able to split my time equally between my blog and Youtube channel.  My videos take much longer to create than blog posts. I mean some deep dives take me a month to just research, let alone put together the script, film, and edit, in between running a business and still trying to find time to relax which has been somewhat nonexistent lately.  I want to say to those of you who have stuck around for a while, thank you.  You’ve dealt with me neglecting this blog, but still coming back to check on my outfits, or just life in general.

LET’S MOVE ON TO THE LINKUP!